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 Memorials of Old Haileybury College
| Date transcribed | 2000-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Benda Cook | | Comment | Publication Date: 1894
Author: F. C. Danvers, Sir M Monier -Williams, Sir S. C. Bayley, P. Wigram, the late Brand Sapte, and many contributors.
Publisher Constable & Co.: Westminster
British Library: OIR 354.54 Held in the Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections.
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| | No. | 844 |  | Surname | Mackillop | | | Christian Names | John Robert | | | Dates at Haileybury | 1844-46 | | | Presidency | Bengal  | | | Career in India | 1847-57 | | | Place of Death | Killed at Cawnpore | | | Date of Death | 1857 | | | Final Appointment 1 | Joint Magistrate and Deputy Collector of Cawnpore | | | Mutiny Service | Joint Magistrate of Cawnpore; a brave, unselfish man. When the English entered what were called the intrenchments, which were hastily thrown up earthworks, affording little or no shelter to the besieged, Mackillop took upon himself to draw water for his comrades from a well exposed to the full fire of the rebels. He did not long carry on this dangerous duty, but soon fell a victim to his unselfish bravery, pierced by the bullets of the enemy. No man ever yielded his life better than ""Jack"" Mackillop. |
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